First Day of School

Hard to believe Alex is a first grader and Joey is in kindergarten. How do I make the time stop going. Too big, too smart, too cute! I love my babies! We've started a tradition with first day of school presents and they remember. They talked about it for 2 weeks prior. Zhu Zhu pets seem to be the popular item right now. Waiting for the bus

One last hug. So cute!!

See ya Mom! Happy First Day of School!

A Muddy Situation

I let the children play outside after it had rained. Never did I think they'd be covering themselves with mud. Well, they did. Needless to say, they had a bath as soon as they were done. They even put mud on the dog. Alex and Joey after their mud bath

Alex tried to act cool for her picture. I asked her if she even knew what the "peace sign" was or meant. She had no idea. She learned it from Laura.

Our First T-Ball Game

Alex and Joey are both on the same T-Ball team this year. This is Joey's first year and Alex's second. Saturday was our first game. It was so cute. Joey was very clueless at first. At one point, they both were sitting in the grass in the outfield during the game.Alex, Hannah (girl from Alex's class) and JoeyHe was eager to participate at this point Alex wanted to be the catcher. She was not bad, just very... slow.

Joey's first bat

Alex's bat

Cute Pictures

Random cute pictures of Alex

I love this one with Morgan Silly, not necessarily cute

Love this one

a good one of the two of them

Easter

Love the Mom tattoo!

Emilee comes to visit / Emilee's birthday party

Emilee and Evin came to visit over the weekend. Poor kids didn't have a spring break. But we were glad they were able to visit anyway.Emilee, Alex, and EvinMonkeying aroundJoey too. Em fell and got hurt. An ice pack and she was all better.

Emilee's Birthday Party

Emilee turned 6 on St Patrick's Day and she had her party at the skating rink Emilee and her cake and a cute little boy that I did not know. A bunch of kids from Em's class came.

Joey really liked skating this time. He never did quite get the hang of it.

Alex didn't either but she was more determined.

100th Day of School

Today is the 100th day of school and it is a big deal. (Previously moved from last week due to snow days). Every kid in the school does a 100th day project. This is Alex's: Thanks to Uncle Tome and Aunt Diane who bought Alex 30 pair of earrings for Christmas, Alex was able to bring 100 earrings as her project. They are arranged in the shape of a 100.

Joey's class did 100th day snack soup. Joey brought in 100 raisins.

Super Citizen

Alex is the Super Citizen for her class this month. It was long awaited and definately deserved. The school chooses one per class per month. There are 21 kids in her class and only 9 months of school so we are very proud. And so is she! SO HAPPY!!!

Lost Tooth #2!

Alex finally lost her 2nd tooth! It only took over 6 weeks to fall out.

Alex's 6th Birthday

We had Alex's birthday party on Saturday, the day before her birthday. She chose the Wetlands Institute which was definately a good choice in our opinion. Alex in her new birthday dressTaking a picture with her little brother Joey

The party started with pizza then a presentation on some of the wetlands creatures.

She talks about a sea star and they listen intently.Alex kisses a horseshoe crab for 7 years good luck.Old friends and new ones. Tony sitting in the nest.

Morgan and HaleyTime for cake. Then to open presents. The kids were so funny. They kept moving closer and closer to her and Joey kept hollering, " I can't see! I can't see!"

It's hard to believe that my baby girl is 6. It seems like yesterday that we were blessed with her birth (well, not quite but time has flown). Everyday she amazes me. She recently expressed an interest in writing in cursive. She loves writing her name that way. She also can be the best big sister at times. She is very good to her brother and does lots of nice things for him and I love it. She is very smart and I love her personality. I need time to slow for a little while.

My Tap Dancing Princess

Alex started Tap in October. She loves it. I just think she's so cute.
Showing off.

Sounding off on our wood floor.

On sunday, Alex went to a birthday party for a girl at school. It was at Montego Bay's indoor waterpark in Wildwood. She was reluctant to go in the pool and was finally having a good time when another girl dunked her... twice. I wish I had seen it because I probably would have ripped that girl right out of the pool. I felt terrible. I should've been paying better attention. She was hysterical. It was horrible. She'll probably never want to go in the pool again.She looked adorable!She played alone after the incident. I told her we could leave but she didn't want to go until she got her cake and ice cream. But she was ruined. I wanted to choke that other kid but I refrained and said nothing. I should've talked to her mother. I am angry with myself but she's over it. Wish I could go back in time.

The Santa Express

We took a ride on Saturday to go to Joey's favorite place - The TRAIN MUSEUM! No suprise, right. Anyway, there is a train station, in working order, around the corner. It is rarely running so we usually just drive past to see the parked trains. On this particular occasion, the place was hopping. We stopped wondering what was going on. Just in time too. 5 minutes to departure and we buy the tickets. All the while not relizing this was the Santa Express. The kids and I lined up to board while Brodie bought the tickets. On our way past the cars, who do we see on the train? Santa Claus! OMG! We had no idea! Then I thought you probably had to buy tickets for that car to see Santa but that was not the case. He walked the whole train allowing every child to sit upon his lap. It was awesome. The best spontaneous trip we've ever taken for sure! The kids with the engine

Mr. Conductor punching Joey's ticket as Joey tells him what he wants to be when he grows up... a train conductor!

Alex getting her ticket punched

Joey starred out the window the majority of the trip...

... but definately not when we saw Santa. The were awesome! So glad we decided to take the ride!

You would think Joey would be a little happier but of course, his natural picture face.Here's Joey breakin the rules.At the train museum, they always run straight to the wooden trains.Then he runs like a maniace from display to display. He's like a chicken with his head cut off. He never knows what he wants to see first. So he sees them all within minutes, then takes his time and sees them again. It's funny but nice to know he really enjoys it.All of the layouts are fantastic. Pictures never do them any justice. We had a great day!